Five DIY physics demos

Missing visits to the museum? Or in need of some home-school activities? Check out these five do-it-yourself physics demos! In March 2020, Ketevan Akhobadze, an exhibit developer for the Lederman Science Center, turned off the power and watched the mist disappear from the center's cloud chamber--a simple particle detector used to teach visitors about cosmic rays. Normally, the science center--located at the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory--is filled with school gr...